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Re: [PATCH] Add archive-tree, a cpio archive creator

From
Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Date
Apr 26, 2005, 14:42 UTC
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<426E533C.70502@lsrfire.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To
<20050425153011.34c93b38.paul@permanentmail.com>
Paul Dickson schrieb:
> Use the "newc" format.  The "odc" will generate a lot of errors on a
>  large filesystem (which I discovered this past weekend).

How is that? I can only imagine problems with the size of individual files inside an archive because the size field in the header is limited to 33 bits.

In any case, I switched to the tar format. It's more complicated but it turned out that creating these things is still easy. Parsing them might be more of a challenge, but we already have tar for that. :-)

See my other mail for more on the tar creator. I also rebased it to core GIT because it's no helper script.

Rene
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  1. Add archive-tree, a cpio archive creatorRene Scharfe, Apr 24, 2005
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